Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Impress help
From: Justin Dieters (enderak@gci.net)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 17:24:46 AKDT
Yeah, I tried doing that too, but it's such a pain to get it all lined
up properly.. maybe if I set it up to snap-to-grid, it should be
easier.. I'll play around with it more. Thanks
Justin
James McMorris wrote:
> Correction...the pic and the line were set as a group automatically. I
> figured it out anyways by reverse engineering the box.
>
> The way to do it is select the "rectangle" tool on the left (just below
> the text tool). Have the selections set (from left to right)
> to "Continuous", your line size, the outline color, and "Invisisble".
> You have to manually draw the lines, unlike Word which does it
> autamatically. But hey, the program is free.
>
> -Buddha
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
> Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:48 pm
> Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org Impress help
>
>
>>Hmm.. okay, it's not that tough to do that (make a border) in
>>Gimp, but
>>it seems like a rather simple feature to have missing.. Thanks for
>>taking a look!
>>
>>Justin
>>
>>
>>
>>James McMorris wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I tried to figure it out by making a powerpoint slide with a pic
>>>surrounded with a border. When I imported it into OpenOffice ver
>>>0.641, the picture and line were converted to a single picture.
>>>
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: Justin Dieters <enderak@gci.net>
>>>Date: Monday, June 24, 2002 2:30 pm
>>>Subject: OpenOffice.org Impress help
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>This should be a stupid question, but I've spend about 2 hours
>>>>trying to
>>>>figure it out and I simply cannot find the answer... In Impress
>>>>(their
>>>>Powerpoint app) I cannot get it to put a border around an image.
>>>>
>>>>I try
>>>>to right click on it, and go to "Style" and then "Line", and
>>>>
>>it's
>>
>>>>on a
>>>>line but it doesn't draw anything. I've also tried to put a
>>>>
>>drop
>>
>>>>shadow
>>>>on it, and it doesn't do anything. It works for like a text
>>>>
>>box,
>>
>>>>but
>>>>not an image. Seems like it should be a pretty easy and
>>>>
>>standard
>>
>>>>thing
>>>>to do - any ideas? I've tried it on both Linux and Windows, and
>>>>
>>I
>>
>>>>can't
>>>>get either to work..
>>>>
>>>>Thanks all,
>>>>Justin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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